[68113] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: UUNet Offer New Protection Against DDoS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Douglas.Dever@alltel.com)
Wed Mar 3 04:10:23 2004
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 04:07:09 -0500
From: <Douglas.Dever@alltel.com>
To: <dalnetuzer@yahoo.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
From: On Behalf Of John Obi
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 2:21 AM
> MCI/WorldCom Monday unveiled a new service level agreement (SLA)=20
At the risk of sounding thoroughly underwhelmed... Uhm, where's the beef? =
All I see is the opportunity to get a service credit should one complain l=
oud enough after a DoS attack. Maybe I'm missing something here, but I dou=
bt it. I've never seen an SLA that guarantees 5 9's of reliability keep a =
T1 from going down - but the paper it was written on was nice... somewhat s=
oft, and you didn't have to worry about your finger poking through it.
--
Douglas A. Dever
ACI/IT Network Services
ALLTEL Communications Inc.
330.963.1720
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